"...Tony Sheridan explain why listening to 'Sweet Georgia Brown' really gives that impression: 'He [McCartney] sounds like a double bass, 'cause I told him to play like theat. I didn't like the new idea of Fender guitar bass. When I first heard Elvis singing 'Jailhouse Rock', that was the first time I heard the electric bass and I didn't like that. Before that, Elvis had always that big bass. I still think the big bass is the best, it has more sound. So I asked Paul to always play as deep (deep notes) as posible, and to play like a big bass player..."

I just searched for The Beat Boys and found this site ....http://www.myspace.com/beatboys65... which has a different line-up for the band in 1960. It looks like Georgie Fame left them in late 1959, so that band with Gene Vincent isn't The Beat Boys after all (it is definitely Georgie Fame in that picture with Gene Vincent).Georgie Fame was based in London by 1960 so it must have been a London band. (The Beat Boys were based in Lancashire.)

Yes, on second thoughts I think it is. There is another picture of the window shop which, I think, shows another bassguitar. I'll try to scan it tomorrow...

Excellent, Bobber... Thank you very much!!

Meanwhile, I'm bringing a small -but very cherished- piece of my own history as Höfner bass player.

As you know, these photos are dated Summer 1978:

But before getting the bass I'm playing at those photos (=something which happened around February that year), I had got another 'piece of Höfner bass' in 1977:

A 4th Höfner bass string, that I purchased at a local music shop in La Coruña (=my native city), that I was intending to put into my old Spanish guitar (=something which never worked out) and that I still keep.